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Haliday — child language. Macrofunctions: ideational, interpersonal, textual. ★what are major branches of linguistics ? what does each study? Phonetics ---- the study of the phonic medium of language, it ’ s concerned with all the sounds that occur in the world ’ s languages. Phonology ---the study of sounds systems — the inventory of distinctive sounds that occur in a language and the patterns into which they fall. Morphology --- It ’ s a branch of a grammar which studies the internal structure of words and the rules by which words are formed. Syntax -------its a subfield of linguistics that